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Anyone craving for a Time Trial? I am. It's time we finish off the year with a bang! I made two levels for you to try. The first is a simple 'dodge the monsters'-level, which I was happy make a bit more chaotic with an addition of a toggle button. The second level is an item fetcher I really enjoyed playing, and even optimizing it wasn't quite as bad as I thought it could be. Give them a go!
http://cczone.invisionzone.com/index.php?/files/file/519-%7B?%7D/
Deadline is the first weekend of January. Send your solutions to me at valeosote at hotmail dot com, thank you. No freezing of scores this month, to keep the suspense at the end of the year.
Standard technicalities apply:
1) The person with the highest combined remaining time on the two levels wins! There may be a tie in overall score.
2) You may enter in either MS or Lynx, with the former being the primary rules. This means that any Lynx solution times that exceed the best MS solution time will be considered equal to that MS time, but otherwise all the times will be compared together in one category.
3) Please send your solutions (either the tws file or avis) to my own email valeosote at hotmail dot com. (Avoid the other emails this time, sorry.) Do not post your solutions or solution times or share them with others before the competition results are announced. (This month, we won't use 'freezing' of scores.) All times will be published at the same time, and the quickest solutions will eventually be released. I will strive to respond to your message by a confirmation that your score has been recorded.
4) The levels aren't too hard to solve. Don't be afraid to send in your solutions even if you sense they aren't perfect, and simple casual solutions are also appreciated. You may enter if you solve at least one of the levels, but solving both will obviously place higher. 5) This is part of the 2015 season of the Chip Cup. Winner will be awarded 15 points, second place 12, third 10 points, and so on. If you win a competition here for the first time, you receive the "You're Winner!" award. All participants who haven't participated in a Time Trial earlier receive the "Run, Chip, Run" award. 6) Submission deadline is January 3rd, 2016 where you live. I will judge the submissions without warning the during the following days but will accept submissions until I do. If you need a more specific time, you can always ask. To avoid losing on time (it is a time trial after all), get your solutions in early rather than later! You can send in improvements while the competition is running, so there is no downside to sending in something you know might not be your best effort if you had forever to work on it.
7) The designer of the levels, may enter the competition, as long as they feel to not have gained any significant advantage as a result of having some advanced knowledge of the levels.
8) The levels may receive an update within the first week of their release. (Note that the levels are not being released all at once this time.) This will only be done if there is some significant problem with the first versions of the levels. Please contact me if you suspect something is off.
Enjoy!
-Miika

Time Trial
NOTE: Version 1.07 of the December 2012 Time Trial is the latest release. This is the version that must be used for the competition!
December 2012
Name of levels: "The Cage" and "Ice Cap"
MS or Lynx: Lynx
Time Limit: 500 and 800, respectively
"The Cage" - by Tom Patten
"Ice Cap" - by Tom Patten
Deadline: 25th December 2012 - 12:00 a.m. GMT
Download: http://cczone.invisi...-december-2012/
TWS solutions and AVIs will be accepted for this competition. Please send them to me at AimRCTtom@aol.com. The participant with the best combined time - the most seconds remaining across both levels - will be declared the winner. Enjoy, and have fun chipping!